Workshop and Retreat Testimonials

~"The Yoga Nidra weekend workshop with Stacy Kamala Waltman not only allowed me to deeply relax, it also helped me identify ways in which I distract myself. The successive Yoga Nidra meditation sessions allowed me to begin to learn to "disarm" distractions and work toward a more healthy way of being. Before participating in this workshop, I had taken and enjoyed individual Yoga Nidra classes. However, there is really no comparison between taking a single class once a week at your local yoga studio and the extensive positive work and deep rest that is achieved in this longer workshop with Kamala. I would sign up for her workshop again with great enthusiasm and will recommend it heartily." ~ Christi A.-----------------------------------------------------﻿-----------“What a wonderful weekend with Stacy Kamala Waltman as she presented her ‘Weekend of Bliss, Delving into the Deep Rest of Yoga Nidra’ workshop at Yogaville! Her voice and delivery and her knowledge of yoga combined to offer us all the most perfect Yoga Nidra experience. Too often, yoga today is as stress-filled as our daily lives. Yoga Nidra is the blissful practice of deepening both our physical experience of yoga as well as our spiritual unfoldment. We all left the workshop with tools to address the monkey mind on a daily basis as well as main and calm and glowing body. Thank you Kamala!” ~ Lewellen Daniel Padgett, Artemesia Artworks & Yoga Studio, Salisbury NC----------------------------------------------------------------"I just attended a wonderful Yoga Nidra weekend workshop with Stacy Kamala Waltman at Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville, VA. As part of my entire weekend experience at the ashram I was able to visit and meditate in the LOTUS, (Light of Truth Universal Shrine which connects all Religions as One). It was thoroughly invigorating, enlightening and relaxing! As a “senior” I am only recently getting back into beginning Hatha Yoga and deeply appreciate the lack of physical strain in this program. Stacy Kamala Waltman’s workshop gave the class an immersion in Yoga Nidra which is a body-mind meditation that keeps the consciousness awake while the body rests. After the first couple of Yoga Nidra Sessions with her I realized the experience also gave me a heightened awareness, an altered consciousness. I think Yoga Nidra may help open and evolve the collective consciousness. I am so grateful for this experience." ~ Barbara C. Stevens Greenbelt, Maryland---------------------------------------------------------------"Life Coaching and Yoga – To Upgrade Your Story workshop at Yogaville was amazing and life changing! What a blessing to have found Kamala, I feel recharged and refreshed; it was a real game changer for me. Kamala is one of those rare gifted facilitators who can skillfully lead a diverse group and help us stay on track among the various personalities, questions and threads that the participants offered. I truly loved this program and the simple, yet highly effective tools she taught really work and have “stuck” with me. I know I’ve been to a great workshop, when even weeks later I realize I have successfully woven Kamala’s tools and tips into my daily life and have been gently pushed forward on the journey of self -awareness. I am much more calm, happy and grounded as a result of the lessons I learned from the workshop and I can’t thank the brilliant, kind and loving Kamala enough for her insightful and generous teachings." ~ Karen S. Levin, Silver Spring, Maryland---------------------------------------------------------------"Stacy Kamala Waltman is a treasure. After taking just one workshop: Life Coaching and Yoga -Upgrade Your Story, I have learned so many tools to get me started on my path to success. It was not only about finding the stories that I tell myself that sabotage my success but also about being conscious of how far I have come and how much I have grown. I have recommended her to all of my friends who are having such a difficult time right now and I am planning on making her my personal Life Coach in the near future. Thank you, Kamala for your wisdom and beautiful guidance."~ Diana Laughlin, Virginia---------------------------------------------------------------"I had been a little out of tune and this workshop came to me when I most needed it. Our lives are closely connected with so many other people that we start to feel a little lost and enmeshed in their stories. Kamala's Yoga & Life Coaching Upgrade your Story workshop helped me dig deeper and understand better how I perceive and present myself. It helped me understand what's my story?! Kamala has this aura about her that immediately put us all at ease. She articulated stories and emotions so beautifully and with a great sense of humor. It was a spiritual experience mixed with an equal dose of practical. Her professional background helped a lot with discussing work. She set the right tone and energy for everyone in the workshop to contribute effectively. My biggest take away from this workshop was to not take life so seriously and be more playful. I have also been practicing her meditation techniques and it's really helped me focus on being more mindful and present. I am very grateful and cherish those 3 days!" ~ Ujjwala K.---------------------------------------------------------------"I loved your Life Coaching and Yoga workshop called "Upgrade Your Story; engage your inner alchemist" held at Yogaville June 2012! You are so real and authentic. You did a wonderful job creating an environment that was comfortable and conducive to sharing; establishing equanimity between you and "us". There was definitely a collective consciousness among us all and it was heartfelt, heart warming. No doubt we all walked away with a tool bag of useful instruments to apply to our lives! The last thing I did before going home was visiting Chidambaram to meditate. When I was done I thanked Sri Gurudev for sharing his teachings with you which enable you to share them with others (especially me, lol). You are a treasure, Kamala! I am grateful for having been able to attend your workshop." ~ Julie Sears, N. Carolina---------------------------------------------------------------Stacy's workshop on Yoga & Life Coaching - Upgrading Your Story was profound: fresh, fun, and full of life! I didn't want it to end. She has a wicked good sense of humor that kept the entire class engaged. The theme for the weekend was summed up in a quote from A Course in Miracles: 'I can elect to change all thoughts that aren't useful and constructive.' Stacy said many things that really stood out to me. One of the key ones was, “We get used to the story and its debilitation—we’ve convinced ourselves that is who we are.” So true! My grasp on what was discussed is navigating out of “the maze,” that place of dense, heavy thought and vibration. In my case that would be emotional pain and the accompanying feelings of apathy.Stacy's insights are like a sharp sword that cuts through density cleanly and easily. The weekend was beyond transformative. I am so very grateful!."---------------------------------------------------------------"I got to take Stacy's programs while she was still giving them, before she gets too popular and begins to train others to teach her programs. The connection she makes is so strong; its as if she is speaking from some ancient place and time. She has these streams of consciousness that just pour forth in such a safe and easy way. I have been blessed to have done this work with her. I finally applied this stuff instead of just talking and reading about it." ~ Melissa Becker, Texas---------------------------------------------------------------Thank you for the opportunity to audit your workshop. I have known you for some time now - more recently by your wise sayings and fresh thoughts which I enjoy every week. As a former teacher and group leader myself, I commend you on your ability to motivate and make profound teachings actionable for your attendees. You are performing a much needed service by your fresh and accessible presentations. Keep up the good work! ~ Errol Ishwara Cowan, PhD. ﻿---------------------------------------------------------------﻿I attended Stacy Kamala Waltman's Meditation Immersion Weekend Workshop and learned so much! Getting back to basics was what I sorely needed to re-establish my daily practice. This helped me to achieve a level of success with meeting my goals and motivated me to stay consistent with it. It also humbled me into a beginner's mind set instead of believing I could do more from the get go. The reality was that I was not meditating as consistently as I could have been and going back to basics and shortening my meditations provided me the space to make my practice more consistent. I loved that we built up gradually so that it didn't seem as if I was climbing a mountain to do more. The other thing that really helped me was the stretching exercises and adding God's presence and blessing to water every time I drank it. Both of these things felt very nurturing for me and self-nurture has been my weak. I really feel like I am honoring the divine spark of God within when I am doing these things and it puts a seed of self-love in me that wants more watering with the bigger nurturing of meditation. I also loved the heart-opening exercise as I am so in tune to the energy of my heart and I love that I can now tap into that any time I want using the exercise when all else fails. Thank you so very much Stacy!---------------------------------------------------------------

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